Potomac soccer: Anyone happy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Potomac has gone downhill. Poorly organized. Practice times and locations change last minute. Poor communication on progress. Coaches late to practice and games.

Sounds more like a flatline than downhill. This has been their problem forever.

[Anonymous]

Complete bs. This is not our experience. It seems well run, coaches seem happy, kids are motivated and well organized. The top team is in its own category but that’s true everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Same, our experience (5+ years) has been great. It’s a larger club, so of course there’s going to be a coach or two that aren’t favorable and or late, but it’s not the norm.

It appears most people get in here to complain and not give kudos or praise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poorly organized.

Practice times and locations change last minute.

Poor communication on progress.

Coaches late to practice and games.

What’s poorly organized? Don’t generalize. Be specific so we all know as consumers

Do you get an IDP?

Name team for the late to practice/games so we can all be on lookout

[Anonymous]

My kid is on RL there and he loves the coach and team

We practice consistently without may placed/time changes

Had a strong mid year review with details, video, and feedback

It’s a perfect fit for our family

And as some say, there are other Clubs if you don’t like it

[Anonymous]

I’m hearing a lot of criticism. I always used to hear great things but not this past season. Poor practice fields, a lot of kids to 1 coach, practice coaches and actual game coaches are different, half an hour of juggling to start practice, futsal on tennis courts. Exodus of their 2015 kids to another program. Are they even sending kids to D1 or pro?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m hearing a lot of criticism. I always used to hear great things but not this past season. Poor practice fields, a lot of kids to 1 coach, practice coaches and actual game coaches are different, half an hour of juggling to start practice, futsal on tennis courts. Exodus of their 2015 kids to another program. Are they even sending kids to D1 or pro?

2015 boys or girls? I doubt too many 2015 girls would leave.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m hearing a lot of criticism. I always used to hear great things but not this past season. Poor practice fields, a lot of kids to 1 coach, practice coaches and actual game coaches are different, half an hour of juggling to start practice, futsal on tennis courts. Exodus of their 2015 kids to another program. Are they even sending kids to D1 or pro?

2015 boys or girls? I doubt too many 2015 girls would leave.

???? Your best player on the 2015 Girls team just accepted an offer from another club. The 2015s are the typical PSA team. Just bang average. They are not in the top division in EDP, plays 2nd teams of the big clubs, and hides in tournaments in lower tiered brackets and call themselves Champions. Just gotsoccer point chasers and play no one. Come up and play the top teams and get a dose of reality.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m hearing a lot of criticism. I always used to hear great things but not this past season. Poor practice fields, a lot of kids to 1 coach, practice coaches and actual game coaches are different, half an hour of juggling to start practice, futsal on tennis courts. Exodus of their 2015 kids to another program. Are they even sending kids to D1 or pro?

2015 boys or girls? I doubt too many 2015 girls would leave.

???? Your best player on the 2015 Girls team just accepted an offer from another club. The 2015s are the typical PSA team. Just bang average. They are not in the top division in EDP, plays 2nd teams of the big clubs, and hides in tournaments in lower tiered brackets and call themselves Champions. Just gotsoccer point chasers and play no one. Come up and play the top teams and get a dose of reality.

Well, that's actually why I said I don't think most 2015 girls would leave. I didn't think they would be strong enough to make a 1st team somewhere else. I did not know the best player on the team just took an offer somewhere else, if it's who I think it is, good for her, though I like her parents so I'll miss the chats.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m hearing a lot of criticism. I always used to hear great things but not this past season. Poor practice fields, a lot of kids to 1 coach, practice coaches and actual game coaches are different, half an hour of juggling to start practice, futsal on tennis courts. Exodus of their 2015 kids to another program. Are they even sending kids to D1 or pro?

2015 boys or girls? I doubt too many 2015 girls would leave.

???? Your best player on the 2015 Girls team just accepted an offer from another club. The 2015s are the typical PSA team. Just bang average. They are not in the top division in EDP, plays 2nd teams of the big clubs, and hides in tournaments in lower tiered brackets and call themselves Champions. Just gotsoccer point chasers and play no one. Come up and play the top teams and get a dose of reality.

There is solid development and a great coach on the G2015 team. They have been steadily climbing up and have been promoted every season. Also with the age group changes……. I think they will be more than fine and will continue to provide strong development and growth for those girls. Seems like they are pretty happy as a team over there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m hearing a lot of criticism. I always used to hear great things but not this past season. Poor practice fields, a lot of kids to 1 coach, practice coaches and actual game coaches are different, half an hour of juggling to start practice, futsal on tennis courts. Exodus of their 2015 kids to another program. Are they even sending kids to D1 or pro?

2015 boys or girls? I doubt too many 2015 girls would leave.

???? Your best player on the 2015 Girls team just accepted an offer from another club. The 2015s are the typical PSA team. Just bang average. They are not in the top division in EDP, plays 2nd teams of the big clubs, and hides in tournaments in lower tiered brackets and call themselves Champions. Just gotsoccer point chasers and play no one. Come up and play the top teams and get a dose of reality.

There is solid development and a great coach on the G2015 team. They have been steadily climbing up and have been promoted every season. Also with the age group changes……. I think they will be more than fine and will continue to provide strong development and growth for those girls. Seems like they are pretty happy as a team over there.

Yet, for some reason, the 2015G did not go to Jeff cup. Only the 2014s went.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m hearing a lot of criticism. I always used to hear great things but not this past season. Poor practice fields, a lot of kids to 1 coach, practice coaches and actual game coaches are different, half an hour of juggling to start practice, futsal on tennis courts. Exodus of their 2015 kids to another program. Are they even sending kids to D1 or pro?

2015 boys or girls? I doubt too many 2015 girls would leave.

2015 boys

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same, our experience (5+ years) has been great. It’s a larger club, so of course there’s going to be a coach or two that aren’t favorable and or late, but it’s not the norm.

It appears most people get in here to complain and not give kudos or praise.

100%, a few vocally unhappy or more likely the same parent or former coaches related to a specific 2015 team.

The club is well intentioned, most staff is friendly with a couple of the director’s trying to elevate the level, the last few years. Some is working, some attempts to be more ambitious are creating friction with the laid back in the family culture.

They are a very long running community club. the comments on number of pros seems silly, while they do have DcU P2P, if you want to push your kid to be pro, go find a USL or semi-pro path and have them play up with men early. It’s More the place of high school and D3 players which fits the geography and player pool

I haven’t looked at the latest non-profit filing but they used to have more part time or volunteer roles and lower spend than other clubs. They are certainly not as effective at social media and hype. their biggest expense that stood out wis field rentals and their tournament (though that used to be a revenue gen for boys )

As for the soccer, that is highly dependent on the coach, and while I see the directors out at some game they also have teams they coach. The top tier coaches are generally competent and balanced, and there’s been fewer crazy and degrading in my experience. They try to teach build out, though I find the variance greater on the girls teams on style of play. Caveat I have not seen the lower teams as much as practices are spread out, and it seems to be mostly higher level teams at jcc and soccerplex

[Anonymous]

Has anyone been with a kids related effort whether school or activities that were well run? Excluding private schools with tuitions of $20K+/year. Me thinks expectations of many parents are too high.

You get what you give energy and attitude wise. We have been happy with PSA the past few years vs. Bethesda. I literally know of one kid whose family is trying to leave and we will be happy for them because they are toxic lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is on RL there and he loves the coach and team

We practice consistently without may placed/time changes

Had a strong mid year review with details, video, and feedback

It’s a perfect fit for our family

And as some say, there are other Clubs if you don’t like it

Are we at the same club??? I have a 11 year old playing there. We switch practice fields every week, 4 players have stopped playing altogether because of how poor our season went. Core players have played the same position since last August. No mid or late year evaluations of any kind.